To John Maxwell Of Terraughty, On His Birthday. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABAB CCCDCE FFFGHH IIIIII IIIIII I| Health to the Maxwell's vet'ran chief | A |
| Health ay unsour'd by care or grief | A |
| Inspir'd I turn'd Fate's sybil leaf | A |
| This natal morn | B |
| I see thy life is stuff o' prief | A |
| Scarce quite half worn | B |
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| This day thou metes three score eleven | C |
| And I can tell that bounteous Heaven | C |
| The second sight ye ken is given | C |
| To ilka Poet | D |
| On thee a tack o' seven times seven | C |
| Will yet bestow it | E |
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| If envious buckies view wi' sorrow | F |
| Thy lengthen'd days on this blest morrow | F |
| May desolation's lang teeth'd harrow | F |
| Nine miles an hour | G |
| Rake them like Sodom and Gomorrah | H |
| In brunstane stoure | H |
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| But for thy friends and they are mony | I |
| Baith honest men and lasses bonnie | I |
| May couthie fortune kind and cannie | I |
| In social glee | I |
| Wi' mornings blythe and e'enings funny | I |
| Bless them and thee | I |
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| Fareweel auld birkie Lord be near ye | I |
| And then the Deil he daur na steer ye | I |
| Your friends ay love your faes ay fear ye | I |
| For me shame fa' me | I |
| If neist my heart I dinna wear ye | I |
| While BURNS they ca' me | I |
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| Dumfries Feb | I |
Robert Burns
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